More Mongolia (it really is big!)

Yak's.......... Strange beasts........This lot were being driven by horsemen over a steep road pass on a hot day. They were'nt keen ;nobody was enjoying it,hard work. Yaks can make deep grunting noises.Jon has been teasing them by grunting back. When one came rapidly and definitely to see Jon off,he went quietly and quickly "off".......he has'nt tried it since. We call the call the calves 'yakette's',but thats probably not correct.

Mongolian food
We are not sure what this meal is called [and since mongolian words are so technically difficult to pronounce its irrelevant ]....but its basically mutton and noodles,and we try and eat it once every cycling day .It keeps us going for hours .

We had been sitting in this tunnel (under the new road that looks as if it will never be finished) to keep out of the rain... we had had the rain chasing us all day.... When we finally got ready to go..... guess what!.... a flat tyre.....

We really do still like each other.......Ahhhhh!
[actually we were just practising if we could master the self timer on the camera ]

Hanna and Niels

We had a special evening out in Ulan Bataar when we got here.The head of the Dutch embassy had invited us to call him when we arrived ;he took us to his home for supper with his lovely family . As we never took our camera,this is a picture of his rather remarkable parents. We met the whole family by chance in Western Mongolia.How lucky was that.